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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea, 1993.
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (Feb 28 1553-1592), French essayist, courtier; His Essais (Essays) established a new literary form, and often used quotations from classical writers.


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